Hydraulic washing-machine



B. BARA'TH.

. HYDRAULIC WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-6.1918.

Patented June 8, 1920.

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Application filed December 6, 1918.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERTALAN BARATH, a citizen of Austria-Hungary, residing at Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hydraulic Washing-Machines, of which the following is a spec1- fication.

The present invention has reference to a means particularly adaptable for driving the dasher and wringer of a washing machine.

A further object is to produce motor driven means, primarily devised for driving the dasher and the wringer of a washing machine, wherein the dasher and wrlnger may be simultaneously or independently 0pcrated.

A further object of the invention is to produce a device of this character which shall be of an extremely simple construction, comprising few interchangeable parts, one which may be easily and quickly connected with a washing machine, which is automatic in action, and which will perform the functions for which it is devised with accuracy and with certainty.

The foregoing objects and others may be accomplished by a construction, combination and operative arrangement of parts such as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of a hydraulic washing machine constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a greatly enlarged sectional view approximately on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view approximately on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view approximately on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the numeral 10 designates a tub comprising the body of the machine. The tub is mounted on suitable legs 11 and has its top provided with a normally closed door or cover 12. On the top, to one side of the cover 12 is an upstanding cleat 13, and on this cleat is secured the legs 14 of a wringer 15, the rollers of the wringer being indicated by the numerals 16.

In the tub 10 is a dasher 18 provided with a shaft 19 that is journaled in a suitable bearing box 20 on the top 12 and which is held in such bearings against longitudinal Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1920.

Serial No. 265,617.

movement by suitable sleeves or collars 21. On the upper and outer end of the shaft 19 is secured a pinion 22 that is normally engaged by a rack bar 23 pivotally secured, as at 24 on the end of a pitman 25, the said pitman being eccentrically pivoted as at 26 to a toothed wheel 27, the latter having its shaft 28 journaled in suitable hearings on the top of the washing machine to one side of the hinged cover 12 thereof. The toothed rack bar 23 is arranged beneath suitable guides 29, the same being substantially U- shaped in side elevation and these guide brackets have secured thereto suitable springs 30 which contact with the outer and smooth edge of the rack bar 23 to force the same into engagement with the pinion 22.

The toothed wheel or pinion 27 is in mesh with a worm 31 formed on one end of a shaft 32 that is journaled in hearings on the top of the machine outward of the toothed wheel or pinion 27. The shaft 32 has its other end also provided with a worm 33 which is engaged by a worm wheel 34 on the end of a shaft 38 for one of the rollers 16 of the wringer.

A motor 40 is secured in any desired or preferred manner to the tub 10 outward of the shaft 32.

The shaft 50 of the motor has a worm 56 which engages a worm gear 57 that has its shaft 58 journaled in a suitable bearing in the side of the machine 10. The shaft 58 has on its outer end a worm 59 that engages with a worm wheel 66 on the shaft 32. The worm wheel 60 is loose upon the shaft 32 and has its opposite sides provided with clutch surfaces 61 designed to be engaged by the clutch members 62 operated by suitable levers 63 on the opposite sides of the wheel 60. The shaft 32 is preferably a two-part shaft both of the sections of which being held in longitudinal alinement, and the worm 31 being provided upon one of the parts of the shaft while the worm 33 is arranged upon the other section of the shaft. By operating one or both of the clutch memhere, when the motor is in operation, either one or both of the sections of the shaft 32 will be revolved to impart motion to the roller 16 of the wringer 15, or to the dasher 18 of the washing machine, or to impart simultaneous motion to both the roller and the dasher. To open the top of the tub it is necessary to remove either of the pivots 24; or

26 and to swing the pitman 25 over or to one with the Worm of the last mentioned shaft, 10 side of the cover 12.. clutch means between the Worm Wheel and I claim: the sections of the two-part shaft for lock- A motor having a Worm on the shaft ing the worm Wheel toeither or both secthereof, a WOIIII Wheel engaging said wo tions of the said shaft, and mechanism cond h i a h ft l p id d ith nected With and actuated by each section of 5 Worm, a two-part shaft arranged angularly the tw -P rt Shaft. of the last mentioned shaft and having a (testimony whereof, I idfix y g tur loose Worm Wheel thereon which engages ERTALAN BARATH. 

